The protection of your private data is a special concern to us. Therefore, we process your information exclusively in accordance with the legal stipulations (Austrian Privacy Regulation, Austrian Communications Act 2003). The following privacy information discloses the most important aspects about how your data is processed regarding your interaction with this website.

Contact with us

When you contact us per email, we will save your voluntarily provided information for a period of 6 months in order to process your request and for follow-up questions. We will not disclose your information to third parties without your authorisation.

Cookies

This website uses so called cookies. These are small text files which are deposited via your browser on your terminal device. They cause no harm.

We use cookies in order to develop a user-friendly website appearance. Some cookies will stay on your terminal device until you delete them. They make it possible for us to recognise if you visit us again.

If you are against this, you can configure your browser so that it informs you if a website uses cookies and authorise this individually.

If you deactivate the use of cookies on this website, some functions might not work correctly.

Server Data

Due to technical reasons, the following data that your browser sends to our webspace provider will be registered (so called serverlogfiles):

– browser type and version

– used operating system

– website from which you visit us (referrer URL)

– website that you’re visiting

– date and time of your visit

– your IP address.

These anonymous data are saved separately from your voluntarily provided, personal information and allow no conclusions as to which specific person is visiting our website. They are used for statistical reasons in order to optimise our web appearance.

Mailchimp

Newsletter consent

Regarding the use of your personal information for receiving our newsletter, you are asked for your consent at a certain point as follows:

“I have read the pirvacy statement and hereby agree that the data handling takes place at a provider in the USA.”.

With our Newsletter we inform you regularly about our offer. In order to receive our newsletter, you need a valid email address. We will check your provided address for its validity and in order to confirm if you are the owner of this address or if the owner gives us the authorisation. When you subscribe to our newsletter, we will save the date and time as well as the IP address of the subscription. We do this in case somebody misuses your email address or subscribes you without your knowledge.

We do not compare this data with data eventually provided by you in any other way.

Newsletter per MailChimp

We use MailChimp for our newsletters. MailChimp is a service provided by the company The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA.

The data saved during your subscription (email address, eventually name, IP address, date and time of the subscription) are sent to a server of The Rocket Science Group in the USA and saved considering the “EU-US Privacy Shield”.

You can find more information abour MailChimp’s privacy policy under:

http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Additional information about the “EU-US Privacy Shield” is available here:

European Commission

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/eu-us-privacy-shield/index_en.htm

The subscription to this newsletter and your agreement regarding the saving of your data is terminable at any time. You can find this information in your confirmation email as well as in every sent newsletter.

Newsletter-Tracking

Our newsletters contain so-called Web-Bugs, which allow us to recognise when and if our mail was opened and which links of our mail have been clicked.

These data are saved by us in order to optimise our newsletters according to the preferences of our subscribers.

For your consent, we will ask you at a certain point:

“I hereby agree that my data and my user behaviour are electronically saved via newsletter tracking in order to send me a personalised newsletter. When terminating my subscription, this agreement will be also terminated.”

When terminating the subscription, this agreement will be also terminated.

Your rights

Fundamentally, you have a right to disclosure, correction, deletion, restriction, data transmission, revocation and termination. If you think that the processing of your data defies privacy regulations or that your privacy rights are being violated, you can contact the supervisory authority. In Austria it is the data protection authority (Datenschutzbehörde).

You can reach us under the following address:

DI Thomas Eichenauer

Lüfteneggerstraße 7/41
A-4020 Linz/Austria

Tel: +43 664 736 737 60
Mail: office@oeko-tex.at

UID / VAT: ATU 38344109